Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
3 June 2025
Today’s coffee briefing covers Boots’ new SmartSkin tool and a £1.2m population health contract awarded by Norfolk and Waveney NHS ICB.
News
New feeds allow Welsh health boards to send data to DHCW
3 June 2025
Four national data feeds have gone live in Wales through the National Data and Analytics Platform (NDAP) to connect data across services.
NHSE warns that AI translation apps could impact patient safety
3 June 2025
NHS England has raised concerns that the inappropriate use of AI translation apps in healthcare could cause risks to patient safety.
Digital Health Networks advisory panels’ new members announced
2 June 2025
The newly elected members for the Digital Health Networks Advisory Panel 2025–2027 term have been announced.
Mid and south Essex to launch ‘hub and spoke’ pathology service
2 June 2025
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust has signed a 15-year contract with SYNLAB for the delivery of a ‘hub and spoke’ pathology service.
Barts Health deploys imaging de-identification tool
2 June 2025
Barts Health NHS Trust has implemented Sectra’s Anonymise and Export functionality, which de-identifies medical images for research purposes.
Trinity Homecare trials AI-powered support app for carers
30 May 2025
At-home and domicilliary provider Trinity Homecare has completed a successful pilot of CareBrain’s AI-driven support app.
University of Oxford establishes institute for data science
29 September 2021
The Data Institute will bring together academics from a range of disciplines including policy experts,
GPs in the South West turn to robots to access Dorset Care Record
29 September 2021
GPs in the region are being given click through access to the Dorset Care Record
Chelsea and Westminster to explore digital tools for HIV
29 September 2021
Working with Gilead Sciences, Cheslea and Westminster will also look at the potential impact of
Dr Tim Ferris: Digital change is ‘really difficult’ but ‘essential’
28 September 2021
The new director of transformation at NHS England and Improvement has said digital change in
Barts Health rolls out new app to support cognitively impaired
28 September 2021
Barts Health NHS Trust, working with UCLPartners and Maldaba, has rolled out a new app
